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Summary
Irene Semos has over 10 years’ experience in health research and data management in the Higher Education and Research Sector. She is recognized by colleagues, peers and line managers for success: in implementing Higher Education’s first online unit evaluation system at DWU; teaching undergraduate students key health research skills; in capacity building and training of staff members in data analysis and software usage for the purposes of DWU’s teaching, learning and research and; in coordinating, collecting, monitoring and evaluating of data for the sake of evidence-based practice for informed decision making.
Research Projects:
Teaching
- Health Systems Research
- Research methods and applied statistics
- Critical thinking
- Biostatistics and epidemiology
- Data analysis
- Project planning and design
- Contemporary Issues in Health Management 2
Experience
Current Designation
Lecturer (study leave)
Full time
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2018- PhD studies
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2012-2017- Lecturer, Health Management and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, DWU
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2012-2014 Research Associate and Data analyst, Postgraduate Research Centre, President’s Office, DWU
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2010-2012-Senior Tutor and Research Officer, Faculty of Health Sciences, DWU and Diwai Pacific Limited
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2008-2009- Graduate Scientific Officer, Honours Student, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research.
Affiliations
- Financial Member- PNG Australia Alumni Association
- Member- Association of Tertiary Education Managers
Awards
EDUCATION
- PhD (in progress)
- MIPH (UQ)
- PGCHETL (DWU)
- BSc(Hons) (UPNG)
- BSc (UPNG)
AWARDS & HONORS
- Recipient, Australian Awards Scholarships 2018-2021, The University of Queensland
- Recipient, Australian Development Scholarship 2011-2012, The University of Queensland
- Recipient, Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program (Honours program), Fogarty International, The University of Papua New Guinea and PNG Institute of Medical Research
Presentations
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Semos, I. & Kula-Semos, M. (2017, October). Cultivating Professional Identities towards Delivery of Quality Health Care Service in PNG. Poster presented at the Painim Aut Seminar, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Semos, I., Lote, N., Yeka, W., Phunuanukoonon, S., Mgone, C., & Siba, P. (2009, September) Care giver practices and their protective associations on children under 5 years in the Eastern Highlands and Madang Provinces of Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the Medical Symposium, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Taurama, Port Moresby
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Semos, I., Lote, N., Yeka, W., Phunuanukoonon, S., Mgone, C., & Siba, P. (2008, September) Nutritional status and it’s association to care giver practices in households of Eastern Highlands and Madang Provinces. Paper presented at the Biomedical session of the Medical Symposium, Kokopo.
Publications
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Ascroft, J., Semos,I. & MacIntyre,A. (2013). Access for the poor and powerless: How changes to health funding have influenced church health service provision in low-and middle-income countries. Working Paper No. 31. Melbourne: Nossal Institute For Global Health
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Ascroft, J., Sweeney, R., Samei, M., Semos,I. & Morgan,C. (2011). Strengthening church and government partnerships for primary health care delivery in Papua New Guinea: Lessons from the international experience. Working Paper No. 16. Melbourne: Nossal Institute for Global Health
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Namun,K., Irumai, A., Chakumai, K., Papapu, S., Sion, P. & Semos, I. (2016). Where are they now? A tracer study of former Health Management students of Divine Word University. Contemporary PNG Studies: DWU Research Journal, 25, 77-93
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Semos,I. (2009). Nutritional status and their associations to key Household and Community Practices (HCPS) of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) in children under 5 in the Eastern Highlands and Madang Province. (Honours dissertation, University of Papua New Guinea, 2009)
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Wand, H., Lote, N., Semos, I. & Siba,P. (2012). Investigating the spatial variations of high prevalences of severe malnutrition among children in Papua New Guinea: results from geoadditive models. BMC Research Notes, 5, 228
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